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toria to be delivered on the occasion
of her jubilee celebration, he I'M
doubtedly intended to pay her
pretty but meaningless compliment;
the dispatch was in the nature OF
what is vulgarly called "taffy." 1t
certainly, did. not mean that the
President and spokesman of the
American people intended. to con-
vey the impression that we were
getting tired of our democratic ways
and were gradually leaning toward
mo1archial IDEAS # lie had any
such intention he did not represent
any considerable number of his
countrymen, and such as he did
represent are regarded as of small
account, being of the asinine, dud-
ish class sometimes seen in the
large Cities and known as Anglo
maniacs. Yet the London Standard
finds in Cleyeland's words some
thing encouraging to its royalist
soul. 1t says cit is certain our
friends over the Atlantic are revolt
ing from Democracy, and seeking
culture, as we understand, with
hopeful eagerness. When it is won
very large part of them will pay
for sovereign of their own" If
the Standard believes itself it has
no conception of the American char
acter, and only the vaguest idea of
the depth to which democracy has
sent it's roots in the American heart
and intelligence. There was never
time in the history of the nation
when republicanism was more pop
ular or better loved than now. The
steady tendency of the people is in
the direction of eliminating from
our institutions everything indica-
tive of royalty. In this line is the
movement in favor Of the abolition
of the American Senate, the upper
house of Congress bearing some
thing of resemblance to a House
of Lords, and the manner of choos-
ing the Senators not being demo-
cratic. Our way of electing Pres
ident is not strictly republican, in
asmuch as the choice of the majority
is not always inaugurated; because
of this, there is a popular demand
which will be needed one of these
days, that the election of the ma
TONS chief magistrate 5e by direct
vote of the people. Instead of re-
voting from democracy, and desir-
ing a monarch, our people are more
intensely in love with their system
than ever, and as this love increases
with the years, respect for royalist
ideas grows less. The reverence
for republican institutions and for
Jefferson, Franklin and others has
become a part of the American ma
ture, and is not likely to be elimi-
mated until the world can show us
something grander and more per-
feet in the way of governments than
has ever yet been presented in the
form of monarchy. Great Britain
approaches us near to perfection,
perhaps, as it is possible for a mon.
archy to reach, and where is the
American who would exchange his
free republican institutions for the
royalist ways of Victoria's King
dom ? 1t is true the cost has some
thing to do with holding the people
to their love of democracy. The
expense of maintaining the White
House for the official residence of
the President is $125,000 while
Englishmen pay 100000 for
keeping up Buckingham Palace for
their Queen. But the cost would
not deter Americans from adopting
royalty if royalty were better than
the simple democracy which holds all
men on the same political if not on
the same social plane
The Standard has misread Pres.
ident Cleveland's dispatch. 1t has
found something which was never